Jeffrey Dean Morgan has delivered some terrifying news to Walking Dead fans, announcing that season 7 is "f**king Negan's world now".

Season 6's finale sees Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) gang surrounded by Saviours and lined up in front of Negan. In the harrowing scene, Negan beats one beloved character to death with his barbed-wire bat, lovingly named Lucille - and his savage terrorism won't end there.

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"What you're going to see in the first half of this season is Negan wreaking havoc," the actor told Entertainment Weekly.

"And some of your characters that you've grown to love are not going to be on the show anymore, and it's going to end badly for them."

Oh, and there's further terrible, horrible, really-bad-news for fans of the show right here:

"It's going to be a whole new beginning for The Walking Dead. Really, we've taken the show and just flipped it upside down," Morgan continued.

"It's a different show now. It's going to have a different feeling. You're going to see your favorite characters in a position that they've never been in before, which is super vulnerable and victimised."